Tadiran Expands in Africa

PETACH TIKVA, Israel, and PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. -- Tadiran Telecom(R) a leading global IP business telephony and communications supplier has signed a distribution agreement with Teledata Technologies Ltd. This collaboration leverages the extensive expertise of both players in order to target the vast opportunities of the African telecom market.

The company also announced the appointment of Zeev Aviv as acting President and CEO. Until recently, Aviv served as VP Sales and Marketing. He will be replacing Eitan Livneh, who served as President and CEO since early 2007.

Opportunities abound in Kenya and by extension the wider East and Central Africa region. It is a fertile market that has great opportunities for telecom growth. Numerous tenders are currently advertised for corporate telephony solutions that specify IP-PBX platforms. The demand for VoIP telephony services has drastically increased due to improved cost-benefit awareness. Many corporate organizations are decentralizing regionally (with Nairobi as the region's hub) and are looking for converged solutions with maximum ROI. In many organizations, the older-generation, traditional PABXs are now being phased out due to the emerging technological trends and the related cost benefits. Requirements are expected to increase drastically with the advent of the TEAMS undersea fiber optic cable project (linking the East Africa region) and due to the increase of Internet bandwidth IP converged solutions.

Tadiran Telecom Inc.